Since 2005, there has been
existing a continuing and stable exchange between artists from Asia
and various networks in Europe and this in a two years rhythm. The Far
East artists are invited to provide a distribution of their practices
and theoretical backgrounds of their cultural activities. Responsible
for the last 2 encounters and this newest edition is PAErsche - Performance
- Art laboratory.
This year, 2015, eight artists from Mainland China are visiting the
network partners from Austria, Switzerland, Belgium and Germany.
In this encounter more than 30 artists from the European partner countries
and the eight Chinese guests are meeting each other. The duration of
the project is scheduled for six weeks. The experimental fields of this
Nomadic Artist's Resident Project are diverse spaces, venues and public
communicative situations.
In the experiment, the relation artist / audience is brought to unfold
and to go further and beyond other artistic practices.
The offer of the European partners covers a wide spectrum: starting
with the classic white cube (gallery), black theatre spaces and a factory
hall with their raw charm. Then across into urban and industrial landscapes
that can be marked by interventions and walks.
Other fruitful areas are small provincial centres, f.e. marketplaces.
In between there are excursions in natural environments - heights, valleys,
woods and quarries. Accompanying roundtables and information sessions
are held, which are organized in cooperation with cultural centres and
art associations.
The Chinese artists were invited because they maintain the braid of
“exchange, gift and their return presents” and the communication between
the public and their own aesthetic interests in these experimental fields
and media.
Similarity and difference to the practices of European artists is fundamental
and orientation for this meeting. PAErsche and our partners in this
spanning project are interested, among other questions: How is this
aesthetic focus and how can we let emerge this practice? The artists
will show pieces and actions of Live Art and Performance as solitary
artists or in cooperation and interaction
The artists will show pieces and actions of Live Art and Performance
as solitary artists or in cooperation and interaction. The outbound
range includes the physical sounding of intentions and situations, across
to narrative sequences of living images and daily poetical gestures
and intensive interactions.

Some artistic phenomena
peeled in advance of the meeting as matters out
1. Since the art of encounter does not rely on products but on floating
media is: a – the central artistic fact the practical application of
these media placed every time in different situations in time and space.
B – attitude is inherent as a floating medium of art of encounter. How
to show the different influences of attitude? C – The interaction, the
energetic coherence in the apparent as communication is the substantial
event in the performance as art of encountering. (syn-energetic simultaneity
in the difference to guided groups, object-oriented performance and
managed participation)
2. PAErsche has developed in the Open Source a method to work together
with specific culturally grown and thereby differently motivated artists.
Instead of closed product ranges, the focus is directed to figure out
the current framework.
3. It turns out to be needs an untouchable to meet, which is supported
as an active peculiarity between cultures, an essential, floating medium.
4. How is emerge from touching the untouchable a realism of the body
and how does it unfolds a field of temporary community in which the
participants can themselves unfold as large as possible? How should
be the touching like, that the untouchable stays unaffected in all,
innumerable shaped act in situations? Stringent and exciting question
at every live art and performance acts. A finely-ranging bouquet of
questions to the guests and the hosts.
5. How do performative acts, live art strategies and cultural actions
refer to something outside standing, avoiding patch self-referentiality,
although they are self-referential in the sense of unfolding communication?
6. How do cultural experiments create significations and singular sense?
7. What will follow if the six weeks of (the project) have passed What
will be happen in the six passing weeks? Which kind of pleasant surprise
will emerge?

the
blog: „The lying on the floor, abandoned to lie" An
exhibition about material in Performance Art formed by E.P.I.
Zentrum Cologne and Sibylle Ettengruber MAERZ-Gallery Linz/A
and more than 80 artists around the world.

The
Black Kit contain the Material and the ideas many single persons,
groups, organizations, associations and information about
artists-run-spaces.It contain documentation about events,
festivals and other forms of presentation with structure of
communication. The B.K. host information, texts, facts about
projects which gave directions in the performance art
network.Included are also temporary projects as potential
material.

Further
on, as an archive the B.K. Has contentsa) embrace a
collection of theoretical publications (texts , essays, books,
catalogues, artists-statements) about performance,performance
art, performing arts and intermedia arts.It contents 3000
named international artists, 500 Dossiers and documentation about
the different organizations in the different performance art
networks.b) concepts and information about intentions for
cultural, social and public spaces. Also alternated activities in
the society.